
Rafik savoured a high class musical education as a young child due to the influence of his parents, who are both classical musicians. At the tender age of 3 he played cello and piano, from his 6th year of age he learned how to work a drum-kit.
Rafik’s fascination for modern and electronic music - as well as the forbidden fruit of his parent’s hi-fi turntable - set the course for his DJ career. At the age of 13 he performed at Duesseldorf’s legendary Unique Club alongside Eric D. Clark. His desire to actively manipulate the music as a DJ finally formed his interest for turntablism.
A few years later, after making an impressive debut to the scenery of German DJ-Battles, Rafik joined forces with Kid Fresh, Rasgunyado and J-Bounce – a team that was truly going to write history.
At the ITF-World Championships the crew known as “Lordz Of Fitness” won the first title for Germany since David Fascher (1991).
Rafik started to win world titles left, right and center. Besides successfully defending the ITF team title with the “Lordz Of Fitness”, he won himself three more world titles in solo categories. Besides his activities as a battle DJ, Rafik performed weekly at Duesseldorf’s Unique Club where he also accompanied the revolutionary jazz project “Turntable Jazz” and shared the stage with Hip Hop’s hall of fame.
In 2007 Rafik raised a monument for himself. Young chap from Duesseldorf stood up to 27 national champions from all over the world and finally took DMC World Championship in London’s O2 Arena. With this title of titles, Rafik emerged into the league of international DJ heavyweights like Q-Bert, Cash Money, Craze or A-Trak. Not to mention that packing 6 world titles means a new record to the history of world DJ-championships.
Beside his insane skills as a battle DJ Rafik also stands for a unique club sound – an eclectic mix of electronic music, breakbeat, hip hop and rock. It’s not easy to categorize and pigeonhole his style - but at the same time Rafik never leaves his crowd out of sight and knows how to rock every party with his unique style and skills.
You’ll find DJ Rafik travelling around the globe – from Europe to the US, from the UAE to China, Japan to Australia, sharing stages with acts like Roni Size, Craze, The Roots, DJ Premier, Guilty Simpson, Q-Bert etc.
Now the year is 2009 and Rafik has his first official remixes and productions in the pipeline.
The technical finesse of a 6-times world champion combined with the musical understanding of a true musician without bounds – this is DJ Rafik.
The homeboy Rafik played a show with Fools Gold mastermind A-Trak at Club 3001 in Düsseldorf on last saturday.
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Two major events are hitting 3001 in Düsseldorf within a week.
Last weekend our boy Rafik shined with three performances at the Splash!-festival.
Check out a few pix of Rafik´s performance at the Monkey´s Club in Düsseldorf on last friday.
While we are hoping for the 4th star for the german soccer team our homie and Artist Alife DJ Rafik will take his 6 stars with him to Ingolstadt.
DJ Rafik will perform a special DJ set on upcoming friday at Monkeys Club in Düsseldorf.
Catch the boy Rafik spinning a set at the Summerjam Fest at Padurea Paulesti in Romania on upcoming saturday.
Can u kick it? Well, we think you could because this friday we are celebrating the first 12 month of C.U.K.I. at 3001.
Our boy Rafik went to Russia last weekend to perform at the Aura Club in Moscow.
Tobias Witt
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